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October 13, 2011 at
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I have been around Sprint car racing all my life and am now in college having to write papers and give speeches. I have to do an informative speech and was thinking about doing it over Sprint car traditions. I know that the four wide fan salute is one but there arent any articles about it posted anywhere on the internet. (I asked this question two semesters ago and called all kinds of people and it still took a lot of research and them talking to more people for me to find out why it even started) So what i would like from yall is to post what are the biggest traditions to you and why. I would also like to know more about the Grove and the Ironman. Thanks for all the help to come
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October 13, 2011 at
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One tradition is a bunch of cry babies who like to do nothing but cry cry cry.
I think they are all sponsored by Kleenex.
SHOOOOTER!!!!!!!
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October 13, 2011 at
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True they do. But I want to know about the real traditions not the tradition of the way they act when something happens.
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October 13, 2011 at
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There is a lot of tradition at Williams Grove. The track was once owned by the great Jack Gunn. He formed the kars circuit which raced at the grove, lincoln, haggers town. There is plenty of things on the net about the Grove but one thing not there is that in the old days the wings had only 18 inch side boards. Thats when Charlie Lloyde was the first person to stagger them when Jim Edwards was driving for him. Good luch with your search.
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October 13, 2011 at
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Posted By: SprintRacingAngel on October 13 2011 at 07:55:34 PM
True they do. But I want to know about the real traditions not the tradition of the way they act when something happens.
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Midget Car racing has a much richer tradition than does Sprint Car, you can find a lot of pre World War 2 info on Midget racing. If you start looking around for pre WW2 Midget Car hisorical info you will find the Sprint Car info you need. The time line of everything, the cars, the board tracks, dirt tracks, INDY, the mortality rate of drivers, the transition to the modern era (60's), and then of course the continuation of all that to the sport we know today (crying) is a fun paper to write.
It will be difficult, but you might want to leave out the real traditions. Drinking too much, sleeping in cars and pickups, hitching rides, stealing watermelons from farmers in El Centro at 2am, wondering how you ended up in Mexico with only 4 dollars in your pocket... maybe that would be more of an autobiography... anyway good luck
Duckslayer, class of 1992. Loma Linda University
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October 13, 2011 at
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Midgets have a great tradition in America. I use to work for g guy named Pat Warren who raced the boards at nuttley and made one of the first quick change rear end. It is amazing what those guys drove in those days, no safety equipment at all. A short life.
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